I'd sort of hoped not to post for a bit, after sending two utterly inconsequential posts in the last week, but I'm very bored and feel like typing for a bit. Typing with two hands, y'know. Fingers on the right keys and everything! Anyways, I'm in one of these Internet cafes so feared by Ally96 (actually, it's not much of a cafe. I mean, I wouldn't come here for tea and scones of a Sunday afternoon with my maiden aunt and the vicar. It's more of an internet fast food place. One affiliated with a certain airline, which is probably horribly commercial and everything, but heck, my ideals go to pot when it's raining out) and the girl sitting through the partition from me keeps inadvertantly kicking my leg ever so slightly and I'm a bit worried that I might end up kicking back very hard. So I'm sitting in a very awkward position, with my legs as far back as they'll go. Robin Stout mused: "It's raining again, and the season makes me play Scott Walker records." In the immortal words of Damo Suzuki, oh yeah! I had a Scott Walker afternoon on Tuesday. 'Scott 3' is very much an album for bleak autumn afternoons, when it's raining out and you're in the house on your own and the room's freezing, so you've put the fire on for the first time this year and you're drinking lots of tea and looking out the window at the greyness and you're wondering just what's happened to your life. Etcetera. 'Scott 4' is more of an autumn evening album. I wouldn't try 'TILT' if you're at feeling at all fragile, or of a nervous disposition, mind. Marty GGGGG wrote of his troubles in blagging posters in New York. Somewhat bizzarly I once got a Tigermilk poster free with a haircut (in Edinburgh, not New York). Now that can't happen often, can it? If I keep going back perhaps I'll end up with the entire Belle and Sebastian merchandising range. I might look like Duncan Goodhew, though. Is it worth it? Hmm... "Isobel is making a Gentle Waves video, and she's going to Rome to finish it, because we can't get a sunny day over here. However, we need a couple of horses for her to ride." Erk... Was there really a kids telly programme called 'The Red Hand Gang'?! Surely not. One can only imagine what it was about! Actually, I believe the red hand gang are visiting Edinburgh this Saturday... At the risk of continuing the ever recurring 'vintage children's television' thread I have a Willo the Wisp audio tape that we used to play in the car on long journeys which I dug out at the weekend after seeing a programme about Kenneth Williams on Saturday night. Kenneth was ace. So hung up about everything. Can I nominate David White as the new Mark E. Smith for his, uh, intelligent and well thought out post about the Middle East? (Only kidding, David!) I think it might just be a very complicated business indeed and not one for the US or the UK or NATO to jump in feet first. With big heavy boots on. Not that that usually stops them. So's not to end a a minor note, haven't Amy Jackson's posts since moving to Glasgow been the most excited and exuberant (notebooks out tautology fans!) Sinister posts in a while? Much more entertaining than idiots like me trying to be clever. Well, that's another inconsequential post. I promise I'll keep quiet for a while now. Really. Ian N. ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+